Trinidad (Spanish for “Trinity”; Yurok: Chuerey) is a seaside city in Humboldt County, located on the Pacific Ocean 8 miles (13 km) north of the Arcata-Eureka Airport and 15 miles (24 km) north of the theoretical town of Arcata. Trinidad is noted for its coastline subsequently ten public beaches and offshore rocks, part of the California Coastal National Monument, of which Trinidad is a Gateway City. Fishing operations related to Trinidad Harbor are vital to both local tourism and want ad fishery interests in the region. Situated at an elevation of 174 feet (53 m) above its own North Coast harbor, Trinidad is one of California’s smallest incorporated cities by population (367 residents in 2010, up from 311 residents in 2000).

Before 1700 AD, Yurok people traditional the village of Tsurai upon bluffs overlooking Trinidad Bay. The first European sighting of Trinidad Harbor was by the Manila galleon captain Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeño, who did not make landfall. The adjacent visit was by Bruno de Heceta and Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
of the Spanish Navy. Their two ships anchored in Trinidad Bay upon June 9, 1775. On 11 June, which was Trinity Sunday, a formal stroke of possession was conducted. At the place where a wooden incensed was erected stands a carved rock cross bearing the inscription, “Carolus III Dei G. Hyspaniorum Rex” (“in the state of King Carlos of Spain”). The Place was named “La Santisima Trinidad.”

Settlers arrived on the James R. Whitting in 1850 and founded the town, renamed Warnersville in tribute of R.V. Warner, one of the settlers. The first publish office opened in Trinidad in 1851.

Trinidad was the indigenous county chair of the eponymous Trinity County from 1850 to 1851, and of Klamath County, one of California’s indigenous counties, from 1851 to 1854. At that get older Trinidad became portion of the newly created Humboldt County after its introduction in 1853, with its county chair in Eureka. Klamath County was finally dissolved in 1874.